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1932
1932 - 0922.PDF
FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 9, 1932 Grierson Flies to Russia MR. J. GRIERSON, who last year flew from India to England in 4£ days, left Lympne on September 2 in an attempt to fly to Kussia in one day, and reached Minsk on September 4. He was forced down in the Rhine Valley by bad weather. England-Australia Flight Concluded LT. COM. G. A. HALL, of the Royal Australian Navy, who left Croydon on August 8 on a solo flight to Australia, reached Wyndham from Koepang on September 1. He was flying a Blackburn " Bluebird " (" Hermes II "). A Canadian England-Australia Flight MR. HEBERT, a Canadian and a former director of the Montreal Aero Club, has—we are informed by Shell-Mex & B.P., Ltd.—under consideration a flight to Australia and expects to leave England on October 15. He will fly a " Gipsy I " engined " Moth," CF-ADC, and will take the normal route via Central Europe to Syria, then down the Persian Gulf and across India, through the Straits Settle ments and the Dutch East Indies to Port Darwin. He will continue to Sydney, where he expects to arrive about November 20. In the middle of December he will ship his machine to Vancouver and will then fly across the American Continent to Montreal, his home. " Graf Zeppelin " THE German airship Graf Zeppelin, which left Fried- richshafen on August 29 for Brazil, reached Pernambuco on September 1. She started on the homeward journey on September 8. The Bibesco Challenge Cup IT has been announced in Bucharest that Prince Bibesco, President of the Federation Internationale, has presented a Challenge Cup for competition by carrying out a speed circuit of the world. We have received from Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., a copy of the rules and regula tions governing the award of this cup, and we hope to publish these more or less in full next week. Meantime, it may be noted that the competition is open to all air craft—heavier or lighter than air—representing the nationals of the countries which are members of the F.A.I., and the competitors will take the following course round the world, determined by the F.A.I.—either Paris, London, Berlin, Rome or Bucharest, thence Karachi, Tokio, San Francisco, New York, and again Paris, London, Berlin, Rome or Bucharest. The start may be made from any of the above places, and the finish must be at the same aerodrome from which the start was made. A West Indian Flight WE give herewith a short report from Cirrus-Hermes Engineering Co., Ltd., of an interesting Inter-Colonial flight recently mide by Mr. Michael Cipriani from Trini dad (British West Indies) to St. Vincent, in his Hermes- engined " Moth." This particular Hermes-engined machine (shown in the accompanying illustration) is the only privately-owned aircraft in the British West Indies, and saw its original service in Canada. The flight was made over several hundred miles of open sea, and Mr. Cipriani expressed his complete confidence in his engine, although of an early production number. He is contemplating a flight to Caracas towards the end of the year, and is of the opinion that this will be as satisfactory as all his past flights have been. Mr. Cipriani was accompanied by Mr. Lickfold and arrived at St. Vincent on July 29 at * 1 I ^JtfllnS 8.15 a.m., having left Trinidad at 6 a.m. A large number of people turned out to witness the landing of the first aeroplane in this island. They were greeted by His Honour Maj. H. W. Peebles, the Administrator. On July 30 Mr. Cipriani left St. Vincent at 8 o'clock and arrived at Barbados at 9.45. On Monday, August 1, they left to return to Trinidad via Grenada, passing from there due south to Port of Spain, where they landed at Piarco Aero drome, having taken 3f hr. from Barbados, flying against very strong head wind. Flights to Africa MR. M. BARTLETT is about to fly from England to Nyasaland in a " Gipsy I Moth " (G-AALS) via Paris, Lyons, Marseilles or Milan, Rome, Catania, Malta, Tripoli, Sirte, Benghasi, Mersa Matruh, Cairo, Wadi Haifa, Khar toum, Malakal, Juba, Nairobi, Moshi, Dodma, M'beya, Fort Jameson and Balantyre. Mr. Norman Turner is also leaving England this month for Kenya in the Wright " Whirlwind "-engined Waco VP-KAP, via the Tunis, Tripoli, Cairo and Khartoum route. Mr. H. W. Sear, who flew to England from East Africa last Spring, has already left on the return flight in the wooden " Moth " (Gipsy III) VP-KAK. All three pilots, it may be mentioned, are using Shell fuel and oil. By Air to Sunny Climes WINTER air tours, of comparatively short duration, from England to warmer and sunnier climates are becom ing more and more popular. Certainly, the aeroplane is the ideal medium for such trips. Mr. W. Lindsay Everard, M.P. for Melton, is just oft for the near East in his " Puss Moth," G-ABDM, piloted by Miss Winifred Spooner. Another of Mr. Everard's " Puss Moths," piloted by Mr. W. D. Macpherson (the England squash rackets champion), with Mr. J. Wilson-Fox as passenger, and a third " Puss Moth," piloted by Mr. W. R. D. Perkins, M.P., will accompany Mr. Everard. Mollison Abandons Return Atlantic Flight MR. J. A. MOLLISON, complying with the wishes of his wife and Lord Wakefield, decided not to attempt to fly back to England from America, but to return by boat. He therefore flew from Sydney, Nova Scotia, to Quebec on September 1, and sailed for England in the Empress of Britain on September 3. Maj. Doolittle Does Much MAJ. JIMMY DOOLITTLE claims a world's speed record for landplanes by attaining a speed of 293.193 m.p.h. when flying a low-wing monoplane over four laps of a 3-km. course at Cleveland on August 31. The record—which was made during the eclipse of the sun—was unofficial, how ever, as he did not carry a barograph. During a second attempt next day he attained a speed of 302.16 m.p.h. on his fourth lap, but only just failed to achieve a record- breaking average over the whole course. Italian High-speed Pilot Killed IT is with very great regret that we learn that Lt. Neri, an officer of the Italian High-speed Flight, was killed in a crash on Lake Garda on September 6. Various accounts have been received of the type of machine which he was flying at the time ; one called it a high-speed sea plane, another mentioned a regular biplane pursuit machine, while a third says the mechanic was also killed, thus suggesting a two-seater. Whatever the machine was, a wing seems to have buckled at the end of a dive, and the machine crashed into the water. The pilot's body was recovered. Lt. Neri was understood to have hoped to lower the high-speed record of 407.5 m.p.h. set up by Fit. Lt. Stainforth, but no reliance could be placed on un official reports of the speed which he attained. The British casualties on high-speed work were Fit. Lt. Kinkhead in 1928 and Lt. Brinton in 1931. A WEST INDIAN FLIGHT : Mr. Cipriani's " Hermes "-engined " Moth " at St. Vincent, after a flight from Trinidad. 858
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